A summary of the 4th book of the Harry Potter franchise., Summaries of English

Download A summary of the 4th book of the Harry Potter franchise. and more Summaries English in PDF only on Docsity! SUMMARY One night over summer vacation, 14-year-old wizard Harry Potter awakes from an unusual dream with his scar hurting. The next day, Harry is invited to attend the Quidditch World Cup—a major sporting event for witches and wizards for a game played on flying brooms—with his friends, but on the night of the World Cup, pandemonium breaks loose, and the sign of the evil Lord Voldemort appears in the sky. Harry and his friends return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin the new school year, and the headmaster Dumbledore announces the reinstatement of the Triwizard Tournament , a multi-school competition that brings the students of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang together for one year. Each of the three schools will be represented by one champion, chosen by the Goblet of Fire. The Triwizard Tournament will include three dangerous tasks meant to challenge the oldest and most advanced students of 17 years or older, but when Harry is unexpectedly chosen as a fourth champion, he is forced to compete. Harry successfully completes the first two tasks through a combination of skill, luck, and a lot of help from friends and teachers. He battles a dragon during the first task by utilizing his flying skills, and in the second task, he uses gillyweed to help him breathe underwater when he journeys down into the lake at Hogwarts. As the competition wears on, Harry forms unsteady alliances with the other champions: Krum from the Dark Arts-centered Durmstrang, Fleur from the sophisticated and snobbish Beauxbatons, and Cedric Diggory , the other Hogwarts champion, who is from Hufflepuff House. The champions compete against one another but develop mutual respect as the competition wears on. After the third task, only those close to Harry believe his story about what happened in the graveyard. The man Harry thought was Professor Moody turns out to be an imposter: a Death Eater sent by Lord Voldemort to steal Moody’s identity and make sure Harry Potter wound up in the graveyard for the rebirth ritual. This imposter, who also put Harry’s name in the Goblet of Fire, is none other than the son of Mr. Crouch, the Ministry of Magic official, and Crouch’s son confesses to kidnapping the real Moody, casting Voldemort’s